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‘She had warned the demon, dissuaded him till the very end when it had become so painfully clear that it had been all going wrong.’

‘But more importantly we are also dissuading adults from giving them guns or war toys,’ Mutota said.’

‘The less frequent services combined with the theory of ‘key interchange points’ will make personal journey times much longer and journeys more inconvenient, thus further dissuading people from using buses.’

‘Ferry said that traditional attitudes towards women's roles in the family had an intangible effect, dissuading women from scientific work.’

‘These fears may no longer be dissuading students from going abroad, as more juniors than usual will be studying abroad spring semester.’

‘They say family planning services are often targeted at women, dissuading men from taking an interest in contraception and sexual health.’

‘Jones claims it is dissuading people and families from England from even considering moving to Scotland.’

‘We wanted to keep her close to us so we dissuaded her from taking up that course.’

‘There are, of course, some writers who would dissuade us from imagining any radical change in this area at all.’

‘Her family feared for her life and tried dissuading her from contesting the elections.’

‘Reducing the number of unplanned pregnancies and unwanted births requires far more than attempts at dissuading poor people from having sex.’

‘I had, of course, tried to dissuade him, if only for his own safety, but he would have none of it.’

‘The officials, some speaking on condition of anonymity, said inspection leaders believe Iraq may be dissuading scientists from agreeing to confidential interviews despite its public promise to the contrary last Monday.’

‘The orator persuades or dissuades someone, to argue for or against adopting a proposed opinion or course of action; the auditors play the role of critics.’

‘Instead of dissuading him from further crime, the fact of having been labelled a criminal may be sufficient to make him what, if we believe his protestations of innocence, he was not.’

‘The MP said the government's policy of creating large dental centres away from most people's homes is dissuading potential patients from registering.’

‘Price, maintenance costs and traffic are the principal factors dissuading people from buying a car.’

‘When she had made up her mind on something it was quite hard to dissuade her from the course she had chosen.’